Search Results: Authors starting with H from Independent Books

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1943 Stapled spine. Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies No. 17. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His owner info inked to front cover. Condition notes: (iv), 21 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; a.e. sunned. Cover: gray wraps, black device and titles front; v lt edge/shelfwear, a.e. sunned.

New York: Hurst & Company ca. 1900. 193 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, color frontis; a.e. lt tanned/a bit grubby, back hinge starting. Cover: yellow, babies w/ Dad + red titles front, black titles spine; moderate shelfwear, extrems worn, lt soil.

Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1983 Among all the saints of post-apostolic times, it is generally conceded, none seems to have exercised a more profound influence upon the Church and the world, not only in his own age but also during the subsequent centuries down to our own day, than the Little Poor Man of Assisi. This English Omnibus will find a ready welcome, not only among writers and scholars, but also by the general reading public. It will enable all to "go back to the sources"-something which is repeatedly recommended in our post-conciliar age-and so become better acquainted with the real St. Francis. Condition notes: [xx], 1,960 numbered pp; HB no DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, cream map eps, printed on India paper, three ribbon markers; PO name inked to top of half title, handmade color thumb indices have been added and one has torn. Cover: red cloth over boards, gilt artwork front, gilt titles front/spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems barely worn, linear ghost across tail. Of… Read More

Oak Harbor: Robert Collier Publication, Inc. 410 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; Gift inscription inked across ffep. Cover: glossy black wraps, gilt artwork front, gilt titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear. Reprint of the 1907 original. Appears never to have been read.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 From the Preface: We offer this little book to the public, it being, so far as we are aware, the first attempt at a history of Anthropology. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 206 numbered pp +5; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, photo frontis w/ tissue guard; a.e. tanned. Cover: tan, brown ornamentation front, brown titles front/spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems barely worn, front joint spotted/foxed, spine mildly sunned.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962 41 numbered pp +1; HB w/DJ. State first printing. Pages: clean, bright, tight, color 2-page frontis; PO name inked front ep, and is hidden by front DJ flap. Cover: full cover artwork of Little Antelope (Johnny Jones) all surfaces, yellow/white titles front, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, same as book; minimal edge/shelfwear, spine toned, apx. 1" closed tear back t.e. A very nice copy indeed, true first edition of this childhood classic.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948 221 numbered pp; HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, photo frontis; a.e. tanned, PO decorative bookplate front ep, eps lt foxed. Cover: green, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear, head tanned. DJ: clipped, green, white titles front/spine, green text back; moderate edge/shelfwear w/ sm and med chips, sm closed and open tears, flaps creased. The biography of the great doctor and religious man.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1894 572 numbered pp; HB. "Authorized Edition". Pages: clean, bright, tight, frontis; t.e. duty, a.e. tanned, cocked. Cover: navy, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, spine a bit rubbed, front board a bit loose.

London: Oxford University Press, 1937 330 numbered pp + 1; HB w/DJ. From the collection of David Wight Prall, Professor of aesthetics and philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard, his bookplate pasted ep. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. lt tanned. Cover: black, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, gray, symphony front, music back, reverse titles front/spine, black text back; moderate edge/shelfwear, head/tail tattered, several sm-med closed tears.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1938 164 pp.; HB w/DJ + TPB supplement. From the collection of David Wight Prall, Professor of aesthetics and philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard, his bookplates pasted to front eps. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. tanned. Cover: black, gilt titles spine,; minimal shelfwear, a.e. moderately faded. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, blue w/ yellow titles and artwork, back yellow w/ blue text; sm closed tears and chips bottom. Supplement is clean, bright, tight in edge-tanned blue-gray wraps, and adds records issued Oct 1938-Sept 1939.

Philadelphia: D.B. Canfield & Co., 1877 1084 pp.; HB. Complete binding copy. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; eps toned, a.e. tanned, t.e. dusty, stamps from Home Mutual Insurance Company to several pp. Cover: leather, 4 raised bands, gilt titles to spine blocks; substantial shelfwear, boards present but disbound, leather scuffed and worn.

Portland: The Scholastic Press, 1939 361 numbered pp; HB. Pages: cleam, bright, tight, red topstain, decorative eps, tipped-in frontis; ae tanned. Cover: lt red, black titles to cream front/spine pasters; v lt shelfwear, spine faded, spine paster rubbed. An account of the Nez Perces, in which the author "attempted to treat the Indians primarily as human beings . . . ". Quite a statement.

Norwood: Haines House of Cards, 1955 88 numbered pp; PB. Stapled spine. Pages: clean, bright, tight; v lt toning/foxing . Cover: white wraps, cards all surfaces, white titles front; modest edge/shelfwear, several sm stains an overall lt soil. Catalogue of hundreds of magic props, not only cards.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1949 Miscellaneous Publication No. 705. A few tables, and nearly 50 b/w maps of agricultural production. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Condition notes: stapled spine, 51 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. sunned. Cover: white wraps, black device and titles front; minimal edge/shelfwear, spine and edges sunned.

Seattle: University of Washington, 1984 Dissertation of Anthropologist Yvonne P. Hajda, developing a regional model of social organization for the lower Columbia River region. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Dr. Suttles is thanked for his contributions in the acknowledgements and elsewhere in the text notes. Several of his works are also cited. GBC bound. Condition notes: 335 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: blue wraps, titles typed and taped to spine; modest edge/shelfwear.

Hanau: Verlag Werner Dausien, 1978 305 pp. + 3; HB w/DJ. In German. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green eps, frontis; slightly cocked, t.e./f.e. slightly tanned. Cover: cream, green artwork front, green titles spine; minimal shelfwear, small spot front. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, color photos front/back, reverse titles front, blue titles spine; creases, chips, some holes, edge curl-not pretty. Humdreds of b/w photos paying tribute to all aspects of hunting. Heavy, impressive.

Brooklyn: Finnish Press (printer), 1968 In Finnish. 428 numbered pp; TPB. Signed by Hakala on the frontis page, also extensively inscribed in Finnish on colophon, with Halaka's initials and address. Pages: clean, bright, tight, photo portrait frontis; a few instances of pencil annotation, a.e. mildly tanned. Cover: lt blue, black titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, spine creased, spine a bit sunned, lt soil, original price penned to back cover. Finnish poetry.

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938 Based on the adventure strip. Condition notes: 424 numbered pp +4; HB. Pages: clean, tanned, tight; textblock tanned and all edges deeply tanned, as is typical. Cover: paper over cardboard, cartoon front and spine, white-yellow titles front, red-green titles spine; substantial edge-shelfwear, extrems well worn, joints cracked. An illustrated page faces each text page. Adorable, with some condition issues.

New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1897 59 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, frontis; a.e. tanned, t.e. dusty, front hinge cracked (intact), PO name and dated inked in period script to ffep. Cover: green, silver/gilt/black artwork front, black titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, extrems somewhat worn, lt soil, smudge down length of spine, spin titles worn. "I wish I may never hear of the United States again," says the disgraced Nolan.

Boston: Roberts Bros., 1892 106 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, a.e.g., decorative eps, frontis w/ tissue guard; . Cover: green/gilt floral boards, cream silk backstrip, silver titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, extremities a bit worn, modest overall soil. 100 marvelous illustrations.